Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.10.313, English translation, including a commentary (Gaudiya-bhasya). This text is similair to the Caitanya-caritamrita and narrates the pastimes of Lord Caitanya, proclaimed to be the direct incarnation of Krishna (as Bhagavan) This is verse 313 of Madhya-khanda chapter 10—“Conclusion of the Lord’s Maha-prakasha Pastimes”.
Verse 2.10.313
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.10.313:
`নিন্দায নাহিক লভ্য’—সর্ব শাস্ত্রে কয সবার সম্মান ভাগবত-ধর্ম হয ॥ ৩১৩ ॥
`निन्दाय नाहिक लभ्य’—सर्व शास्त्रे कय सबार सम्मान भागवत-धर्म हय ॥ ३१३ ॥
`nindāya nāhika labhya’—sarva śāstre kaya sabāra sammāna bhāgavata-dharma haya || 313 ||
`nindaya nahika labhya’—sarva sastre kaya sabara sammana bhagavata-dharma haya (313)
English translation:
(313) All the scriptures declare, “Nothing is achieved through blasphemy.”Bhāgavata-dharma teaches one to offer respects to others.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
It is not proper to criticize others in order to establish one’s supremacy out of false ego. While disrespecting others, an offender falls down from bhāgavata-dharma. The regulation for offering respects to everyone, including dogs, cows, asses, and dog-eaters, has been described by Śrī Gaurasundara in His amāninā mānadena verse.
TEXT 314
madhya-khaṇḍa-kathā yena amṛtera khaṇḍa mahā-nimba-hena vāse yateka pāṣaṇḍa
The topics of Madhya-khaṇḍa are just like nectar, yet the atheists consider them as bitter as nimba.
The topics of Śrī Caitanya’s middle pastimes are like nectar. But those foolish persons who consider the demigods empowered by the Supreme Lord as equal to the Lord consider this nectar as more bitter than nimba.